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COURT MARSHALLED
Mail bosses faced a dilemma this week: who should they send to cover the paper's court case against Prince Harry and others for their own paper?

PHONEY WAR
The Telegraph enjoyed attacking Panorama's "phoney dialogue" in November, but now it has put its own phoney dialogue in the mouth of a BBC boss.

BLEAK MIRROR
It took management less than an hour to reveal Caroline Waterston's successor as Mirror editor, but weeks later staff are still waiting to meet the new boss.

MULLAH LITE
When the mass protests in Iran broke out in late December, the Guardian ran an opinion column from the Iranian foreign minister that hasn't aged well.

MOUSE PAD
None of the many senior managing editors at the Guardian has managed to oversee the eviction of a multitude of mice from its fancy-pants offices.

OUTDATED VIEWER
Rod Liddle is being moved off the TV reviewing beat at the Sunday Times Culture section – perhaps because he struggled to operate streaming platforms.

TOOL TIMES
After Times hacks were twice taken in by AI nonsense last year, bosses are now running mandatory training sessions designed to help staff understand the tech.

ELIZABETHAN DRAMA
A Daily Mirror scoop from the start of this month about a man who fathered 43 children turned out to be a story that's more than 400 years old.

ARTICLES OF FAITH
The BBC's Traitors has proved such a hit that any half-baked thought relating to it makes its way into the Street of Shame's offerings.

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Security beefed up at Andrew's new home... Defecting politician denies he has personal ambitions to become King... Boy in naked emperor shocker... Golden Globes frocks shocks!... Fury over man taking woman's award... Earliest working ironyometer explodes... King George III: 'Is Trump losing his marbles?'... Conspiracy update: Grok special… Minnesota shooting – why did Jonathan Ross do it?... Lucy Worsley's Victorian Murder Club, as told to Craig Brown

Code of silence
How Samaritans bosses shut down dissent

Mullah lite
The Guardian's Iran problem

Moscow rules
Robert Jenrick, Reform UK and Russia

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